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Langauge Education in the Caribbean - Selected Articles by Dennis Craig (Paperback)
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Langauge Education in the Caribbean - Selected Articles by Dennis Craig (Paperback)
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Dennis Roy Craig (1929 - 2004) was one of the most outstanding
Caribbean linguists of the 20th century. The Society of Caribbean
Linguistics honoured him in 2000 for what was described as "an
academic career at once awesome and inspiring," for his devotion to
Creole linguistics and his tremendous contribution to language
education in the Caribbean. He was not only an outstanding figure
in educational leadership in the region, which includes his service
as Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana (1991-1995), he was
also a poet. In 1998 he won the Guyana Prize for Literature for the
Best First Book of Poetry. However, it is with his contribution as
a linguist, particularly to language education in the Commonwealth
Caribbean with which this book is concerned, and to that end, eight
of his most representative articles have been chosen to demonstrate
Dennis's understanding of the language situation in the
English-official Caribbean and the breadth of his vision in
relation to the spheres of language teaching and language learning
in the English-based Creole-speaking societies. Although most of
these articles were written between the 1970s and the 1990s, the
problems and issues that they treat are what we continue to face in
the 21st century. This is testimony to Dennis's amazing grasp of
the nature of the factors involved in the teaching and learning of
language in Creole-speaking communities. This book should prove
very useful not only to language teachers, but also to creolists as
well as to practitioners and researchers in the field of Caribbean
language education.
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